Word: ineptness
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Bhutto was a notably inept administrator. During her first, 20-month premiership, she failed to pass a single piece of major legislation, and during her two periods in power, she did almost nothing to help the liberal causes she espoused so enthusiastically to the Western media. Instead, it was under her watch that Pakistan's secret service, the ISI, helped arm the Taliban and facilitate its rise to power in Afghanistan. And she did nothing to rein in the agency's disastrous policy of training Islamist jihadis to do the ISI's dirty work elsewhere. As a young correspondent covering...
Khan says he is naturally skeptical of talk that the government could be behind the assassination but says that their inept handling of the investigation only adds to the rumors. The idea that Bhutto died when her head hit a lever as she was pushed down into her open top car is "ridiculous." He also says that the government is not serious in investigating incidents like last week's. "How come, at least in the last three years, there have been scores and scores if not hundreds of bomb blasts and suicide attacks in Pakistan and the only incidents that...
...revered constitutional monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej (all allegations that Thaksin has denied). But while the generals' takeover was executed with impressive precision, the same can't be said of their administration of the country. Their appointed government of mostly elderly bureaucrats has been criticized as slow-moving and inept. A Muslim insurgency in the south rages on, the economy is mired in doldrums - Thailand's 4.3% growth for 2007 is the lowest in the region - and the government's failure to spend heavily in the provinces has left the rural poor longing for Thaksin and his populism. That...
...conference whose delegates appeared to be in a state of open revolt, booing and whistling at Mbeki during his opening speech, drowning out Mbeki allies by singing songs in support of Zuma, and delaying the leadership vote for two days in arguments over procedure. Mbeki's stubborn and inept performance on the podium on the opening day only underscored his alienation from those he sought to lead. He spoke for two and a half hours, frequently repeating himself, and addressed his unpopularity only through oblique warnings about the dangers of division within the party. Regarding Zuma, Mbeki made several mentions...
...investigate criminal activity in the Hellesdon area. (Norfolk police officers are normally banned from social networking sites like Bebo in order to keep officers from wasting time.) "There is an attitude within the youth community that they are technically able but everyone over 24 is technically inept. That's their naivety, and our advantage," Chapman told TIME...